The Teapot Summer School is run by a charitable trust
Donations to the Teapot Summer School Trust are tax deductible and welcome! Please consider including a bequest to the Trust in your will.
Up to 90 choristers get together every January to work with a wonderful international choral conductor to make beautiful music in a beautiful setting. Individual coaching sessions from a highly qualified teacher are an option for all choristers at no extra charge. For nine days we enjoy great company, copious food and have fun making other music in small groups or just lazing about in one of the most stunning parts of New Zealand.
Many Teapotters return year after year but every year there are new faces.
The repertoire we have sung over the 20 years of the Teapot Summer School has been very varied:
| Year | Conductor | Repertoire |
| 2001 | Sir David Willcocks | Haydn Nelson Mass Parry Blest Pair of Sirens |
| 2002 | Sir David Willcocks | Mozart Requiem in D minor and Vesperae Solennes de Confessore Hamilton Invocation Handel Zadok the Priest |
| 2003 | Sir David Willcocks | Haydn Harmoniemesse Willcocks Lux Perpetua |
| 2004 | Sir David Willcocks | Bach Magnificat in D Rutter Magnificat Willcocks Magnificat |
| 2005 | Mike Brewer | JenkinsThe Armed Man Lambert Rio Grande |
| 2006 | Sir David Willcocks Mike Brewer | Brahms German Requiem (sung in English) World Music |
| 2007 | Sir David Willcocks | Bach Mass in B minor |
| 2008 | Ebbe Munk | Bortnyansky Sacred Concertos Nos 9 & 24 Grieg Ave Maris Stella Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium Nielsen Motets “Dominus regit me & Benedictus Dominus” Pärt Beatitudes |
| 2009 | Ebbe Munk Mike Brewer | Barber Agnus Dei Songs from Cuba Granados Salve Parra Gracias a la vida Spanish dances Yo tenia mi cascabel Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor Victoria Vado et circuibo & Ave Maria Whitacre Water Night & O Magnum Mysterium |
| 2010 | Jonathan Willcocks | Haydn Nelson Mass Willcocks A Great and Glorious Victory |
| 2011 | Brian Kay | Duruflé Requiem Gounod St Cecilia Mass |
| 2012 | Brian Kay | Artley Psalm 121 Beethoven Mass in C major Purcell Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary Rutter Gloria |
| 2013 | Ebbe Munk | Artley O Magnum Mysterium Rossini Petite messe solennelle |
| 2014 | Ebbe Munk | Elgar Great is the Lord Lauridsen Lux Aeterna & Sure on this Shining Night WhitacreAlleluia |
| 2015 | Brian Kay | Artley The Lord is My Shepherd Puccini Gloria Vivaldi Gloria |
| 2016 | Ebbe Munk | Donizetti Messa di Requiem Mendelssohn Psalms 91 & 100 |
| 2017 | Ben Parry | Artley When I am Dead, My Dearest Britten Rejoice in the Lamb Fauré Requiem Parry Seven Goodly Reasons to Sing |
| 2018 | Ebbe Munk | Bortnyansky Sacred Concerto No 24 Lauridsen Sure on this Shining Night Mozart Mass in C minor |
| 2019 | Brian Kay | Artley May God Bless You Chilcott Five Dances of Time Dyson Three Songs of Praise Mendelssohn Hymn of Praise |
| 2020 | Ben Parry | Artley Missa Brevis Parry Land Ho! Rutter Feel the Spirit Willcocks Ceremony of Psalms |
Future Teapot Summer Schools
Mark your diaries!
14-23 January 2022 | Conductor Ebbe Munk, Denmark
13-22 January 2023 | Conductor TBA
End of Summer School Concert Sunday 23 January 2022, 2pm at Nelson Centre for Musical Arts